Chad held parliamentary elections in late December 2024. The final results released on 21 January 2025 gave the well-established former ruling party, the Movement Patriotique du Salut (MPS), 124 seats ...

Chadians’ trust in the democratic process has ceased completely. This bodes ill for a country that ranks as one of the ...

Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. But persistent problems, including poverty, the effects of climate change, and weak governance, are fuelling widespread social ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...

Analysis - Left parties of West Africa warn that announcements by France-backed regimes in its former African colonies about the withdrawal of its troops is an attempt to deceive the anti-imperialist ...

Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs won the election in November by a little over 700 votes. Her victory has been confirmed by two recounts. “Judge Griffin is jeopardizing voters ...

Nonetheless, President Idriss Deby maintains that Chad is stable. Is that the case? President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno and his ruling party, the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), have ...

But this revolt is not global. It is confined to the developed world. Last year, incumbent parties lost 85 per cent of the elections in developed countries, up from 25 per cent on average in the ...

The parliamentary election, which also included regional and municipal elections, was the last stage of the country's transition to democracy after Mahamat Idriss Deby took power as a military ...

Chad’s ruling party took the majority of votes in last month’s parliamentary election, which was boycotted by the main opposition, provisional results show. In what was the first parliamentary ...